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UNrTEn STATES PATENT WTILLIAM SVINDELL AND JOHN C. SWINDELL, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

FU RNACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,088, dated January 1'7, 1893.

Application and Jimmy 6,1892. sean No. 417,152. (Nomade.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM SWINDELL and JOHN C. SWINDELL, citizens of the United States, residing at Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Furnaces, of which improvements the following is a specification.

The invention described herein relates to certain improvements in the furnace shown and described in au application filed on or about October 29, 1891, Serial No. 410,195. In said furnace the gas was delivered in a single stream or jet -into a central flue whence it flowed into the heartlintermingled with a suitable quantity of alii-'which was discharged from a circumferential due in series of jets or streams into the central flue.

The object of the present invention is to provide for the discharge of the gas in a series of jets from a circumferential flue into the central flue, where it commingles with the air similarly discharged into the central Hue. And it is a further object of said invention to provide for a cleaning of the several fines and passages of the furnace while in a heated condition by causing air to traverse the flues for the products of combustion and the gas in a direction opposite to that of the normal flow of the gas and products of combustion.

The invention will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a sectional elevation, showing our improvement applied to a glass potJ furnace; Fig. 2 isa sectional plan view of the same, and; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the common regenerating furnace having our improvement applied thereto. liigsAc and 5 are sectional elevations, the planes of section being indicated by thelines ft, fc, and y, y, respectively, in Fig.

In applying our invention to a glass pot furnace, the heating or melting chamber l is of the usual or any suitable form, suitable seats for the pots being provided on the hearth and suitable openings being formed through the side Wall for the necks of the melting pots 2. At the center of the hearth is formed a vertical llue 3, and outside of this flue 3 are formed annular fines a and 5, connected by short radial fines G and 7 with the central flue 3. The flue et is connected by a horizontal flue 8 with the gas producers 9 by bonnet fines 10, which are provided with valves l1, whereby the flow of gas through the tlue 8 can be stopped. The flue 5 which is located below the line a is connected With the regenerating chamber l2,

which is provided with a series of passages 13 for the air and a series of alternating passages 14; for the products of combustion which enter said passages from the vertical flue 15, connected at its upper end to the annular flue 1G. Air enters the outer ends of the passages 13 through the opening 17, which can be partially or entirely closed by the door 18. The outer ends of the passages 14C connect with a flue 19 leading to the stack 20, said fine being provided with a valve 24:, whereby the flow of products of combustion to the stack can be stopped. A series of vertical dues 21 extend from points opposite the seats of the pots `2 down to the annular line 16, as shown in Fig. l, and serve as exits for the products of combustion from the heating chamber. In this furnace as in that described in the application hereinbefore referred to, the flow of the gas and air, and the products of combustion is always in the same direction. As also fully set forth in said application, double regenerating chambers through which the air andy products of combustion are caused to pass alternately, may be employed.

In order to eifect a cleaning of the several dues and passages of the furnace, the gas [lue 8 is connected near its outer end with a stack 22, which is provided with a valve 23, whereby the stack may be closed ator near its lower end during the normal operation of the fur-Y nace. Vhen it is desired to clean the dues, the valve 24C, in the stack Hue 20, and the valves 11 in the bonnet flues 10 are closed, and the valve 23 in the stack 22 opened. Thereupon the draft of said stack will canse the air to traverse the regenerative chamber and the iiues 5 and 7 to the vertical flue 3, whence it will pass through the dues 6 and 4 into the gas flue 8, where the deposits from the gas in its normal iiow, will be consumed, the products of combustion escaping through the stack 22.

The skilled furnace builder having the IOO knowledge imparted by the drawings and foregoing description, will be able to readily devise other arrangements for effecting the reverse traverse of the air as herein described, Without departing from the spirit of our invention and apply our invention to other constructions of regenerating furnaces. As for example in Fig. 3, we have shown our improvement applied to the Well known double chamber regenerating furnace. As shown the only essential change consists in connecting the gas flue 8 at or near its junction with the producers 9, with a stack 22 provided with a valve 23, which in the normal operation of the furnace is kept closed. The bonnet flues l0 connecting the producer with the gas flue are also provided with valves l1, which are closed when it is desired to clean the gas iin-e. The nues 1l being closed the valves 24 in the stach lines are closed so as to stop the draft of the stack 20, the reversing valves 25 and 26 inthe gas and air fines are placed centrally thereof or in a middle position and the valve 23 opened. The draft of the stack 22 will noW cause the air to flow through the air fines 27 and both air regenerating chambers to the hearth of the furnace as in the normal operation of the furnace, and Will then be drawn down through the gas regenerating chambers through the gas flues 2S, valve chamber 29, and flue 8 to the stack 22. The air in its traverse through all the regenerating cham` bers will be highly heated, so that as soon as it enters the gas flue the deposits therein will be ignited and quickly burned out.

The small rectangle 30 shown in the regenerating chamber 12,Fig.l,representstiebricks by which the adjacent Walls of the flues in the regenerating chambers are held together. ln the platform adjacent to the furnace is shown a series of iiues 3l for the circulation of air, thereby preventing an excessive cooling of the plat-form.

Ve claim herein as our invention:

1. As an improvement in the art of operating furnaces, the method herein described of cleansing the same, which consists in causing air to traverse the heated regenerating chambers and pass thence to and through the gas fines, whereby a combustion of the deposits in the gas lines is effected, substantially as set forth.

2. Afurnace having in combination a valved connection extending from the gas flue at or near its junction with the producer or other supply to a stack, a Valve for stopping the normal draft through the furnace and a valve for stopping the normal flow of gas from the producer or other supply, substantially as set forth.

3. A furnace having in combination therewith a main stack, an auxiliary stack provided with a valve and connected With the gas flue at or near its point of junction With the producer or other gas supply, a valve for stopping the draft through the main track, and a valve for stopping the normal iiow of gas from the producer or other supply, substantially as set forth.

4. In a furnace, the combination of a heating chamber, regenerating chambers provid ed with an air inlet, flues extending from the regenerating chambers to the heating chamber, gas conducting (lues having an open connection with the dues from the regenerating chamber and with the heating-chamber, and an auxiliary stack having a valved connection with the gas fines for causing the air to traverse the regenerating chambers, the fines extending therefrom and the gas fines, Whereby a combustion of the deposit-s in the gas fines is eEected, substantially as set forth.

5. In a furnace, the combination of a heating chamber, gas producers, regenerating chambers provid ed with an air inlet, inlet and outlet ilues for the heating chamber, two annular fines surrounding the inlet iiue and connected thereto by a Series of radial lines, a flue connecting one ofthe annular fines with the producers, a flue connecting the other annular flue with the regenerating chambers, an auxiliary stack connected to the gas yflue at or near its junction with the producers, a

valve controlling the draft through the auxiliary stack a valve for stopping the normal draft through the furnace and a valve for stopping the normal iioW of gas from the producer, substantially as set forth.

6. Afurnace having in combination a con nection extending from the gas .flue at or near its junction with the producer or other supply to a stack, a valve for closing such connection, a valve for stopping the normal draft through the furnace and a valve for stopping the normal flow of gas from the producer or other supply, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands.

XVILLIAM SWINDELL. l JOHN C.. SWINDELL. Witnesses:

DARWIN S. WOLCOTT, R. H. W HITTLESEY.- 

